1st Six Weeks - Vocab

mountains and basins region

• steppe

• wildlife conservation

• Trans-Pecos

• aquifer

cold-blooded invertebrates, examples: insects, black widow spiders

• arthropods

• wildlife conservationion

• invertebrates

• vertebrates

the study of Earth

• geography

• cartographers

• archaeologist

• faulting

poisonous substances

• invertebrates

• vertebrates

• arthropods

• toxins

mapmakers

• equator

• prime meridian

• cartographers

• longitude

an invisible line that runs from east to west through the center of the Earth, exactly halfway between the North & South poles

• equator

• prime meridian

• cartographers

• longitude

an invisible line that runs from north to south through the center of the Earth

• equator

• prime meridian

• cartographers

• longitude

bowl - shaped areas of land that sink in

• elevation

• prime meridian

• basin

• Trans-Pecos

an underground layer of gravel, rock, or sand that traps and holds rainwater

• elevation

• aquifer

• basin

• Trans-Pecos

(meridians) lines drawn on a map to show how far east or west a place is from the prime meridian

• equator

• prime meridian

• latitude

• longitude